· Private foundation
The Brewster Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HORACE MANN SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| THE FAMILY ANNEX | $25,000 |
| COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND | $10,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| STUDIES IN GENDER & SEXUALITY | $5,000 |
| BROOKLYN BOTANICAL GARDEN | $3,000 |
| PROJECT REDWOOD | $2,500 |
| ASIAN WOMEN GIVING CIRCLE | $500 |
| YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK | $500 |
| NEW CANAAN YMCA | $200 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of -2% since the first grant, against -43% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CCCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +37%
- BHBrooklyn Heights Association Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +12%
- FHFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC2× · 2020–2021 · $1k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- FAFAMILY ANNEX CHILDCAREone grant, 2023 · $25k
- MAMETROPOLITAN ART MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $5k
- BBBROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INCone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -79%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…
To support and advance the education, research, and the public service mission of brooklyn college of the city university of new york (cuny).
To generate, encourage and promote the educational purposes of brooklyn college of the city university of new york and the educational welfare of its students in their relations with each other, the members of the faculty, the alumni and…
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
Students are prepared to meet the needs of an ever changing technological and global society. we use the latest technology in our classrooms as an integral part of its curriculum approach. this approach is based on the latest research in…
Creates experiences that ignite curiosity, celebrate identity & cultivate joyful learning.
Spark lasting social justice change, mobilizing people, capital, & expertise for a fair brooklyn.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Greater New York and the most unlike its peers is Brooklyn Heights Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Horace Mann School ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY ANNEX ↗
- Who funds PROJECT REDWOOD ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Brooklyn Heights Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH ISLAND FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Brewster Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.